Quotes About Language

Moth: They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.Costard: O! they have lived long on the almsbasket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.

A good mouth-filling oath.

She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

Polonius: What do you read, my lord?Hamlet: Words, words, words.

Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

Weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

I did, however, watch the movie I had made in the universal language of Esperanto, Incubus. I'd made it just before we started filming Star Trek, and by the time it was released, I had already forgotten how to speak the language, so like the few people who actually saw this film, I didn't understand it either.

By the time we became friends, he was concerned he was losing his facility for the language, so he actually found a Yiddish-speaking psychiatrist in Los Angeles and paid her hourly fee once a week just to sit and speak with him in Yiddish. He

The crown of literature is poetry.

To do it artificially, to try to hype myself into being a better writer by doggedly reading better literature, is also a mistake. I learn to use the language by the pleasures it gives me when I am able to swim in it or maneuver in it or interchange in it with the people around me.

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

a language is just a dialect with an army,

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongueThat Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals holdWhich Milton held.

Choice word and measured phrase, above the reachOf ordinary men.

Therefore am I still / A lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we behold / From this green earth; of all the mighty world / Of eye and ear, both what they half create / And what perceive; well pleased to recognize / In nature and the language of the sense, / The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse/ The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being.

and in thy voice I catch the language of my former heart, and read my former pleasures in the shooting lights of thy wild eyes.

Choice word, and measured phrase; above the reach   Of ordinary men; a stately speech!

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spoke: the faith and morals hold which Milton held.

Oh, to say something so fine, so memorable, that it carries across time, oceans, and languages!

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.

Quotation lovers love rare words.

FRANK: Do you know Yeats? RITA: The wine lodge? FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet. RITA: No. FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance. RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.